FARC for Peace, Social
Justice
The Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC)
called for a country
without war after
necessary steps are
taken to promote peace
with social justice.
"The future of Colombia
cannot be one of war,"
declared comandante Raul
Reyes, reiterating the
decision of the
guerrilla organizations
to procure an agreement
of humanitarian
exchange.
Unfortunately, the
comandante said that the
oligarchies aligned with
the drug mafias and
paramilitaries took over
the government to defend
their interests, with a
nod from Washington.
This is self-explanatory
in the Colombia Plan and
its derivatives such as
the Patriot Plan,
Consolidation and others
with grandiose names
such as Plan Lasso,
Centaurs, Destructor One
and Two or Tanatos, of
former president Andres
Pastrana.
Now, the FARC leader
added, they are begging
for approval of the Free
Trade Treaty with the
United States to
continue their killing
sprees with more poverty
and destitution but
without renouncing the
plans of war inspired by
the plundered empires
directed by the United
States.
Reyes made this
declaration after the
liberation of Claudia
Rojas and Consuelo
Gonzalez and with the
announcement of the
liberation of three more
congresspersons in
answer to requests by
Venezuelan president,
Hugo Chavez, and senator
Piedad Cordoba.
The proposal Chavez made
to recognize the status
of FARC was the best
political contribution
toward a humanitarian
agreement and
achievement of peace, he
added.
In his opinion, one of
the objectives of the
war of the Alvaro Uribe
government is to force
the peoples and
governments of Venezuela
and Ecuador to
participate in the
internal conflict of
Colombia through joint
operations with troops
from the three
countries.
"Our policy," he said,
"is to contribute to
brotherhood. FARC does
not cross the border of
any nation in military
operations."
In his declarations to
Prensa Latina, Reyes
assured that comandante
Manuel Marulanda is in
good health and at the
head of FARC,
successfully leading his
organization and denied
false rumors of a
terminal disease with
infighting to achieve
leadership.
Referring to a possible
exchange of prisoners,
the rebel chief said it
was of utmost importance
to clear forces from the
municipalities of
Pradera and Florida, in
the Cauca Valley
department for 45 days.
The Spanish government
and catholic church of
Colombia excluded
themselves as mediators
for taking sides with
Uribe, he added.
Reyes recalled that the
guerrillas Simon
Trinidad and Sonia,
extradited to the United
States and the three US
agents held by the
rebels are a substantial
part of a possible
exchange.
The three CIA spies
captured are war
prisoners and not
kidnapped as the war
hawks say to deny the
truth of United States
interference in the
internal conflict of
Colombia, he informed.
"Our army," he said
"continues a normal
process of growth in
experience, men and
weapons with growing
popular support. There
are daily combats
throughout the homeland
because guerrilla
movements are mobile and
their presence is felt
in all of Colombia." |
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